Altab Ali Park is a small park on Adler Street, White Church Lane and Whitechapel Road, London E1; formerly known as St. Mary's Park it is the site of the old 14th Century white chapel, St. Mary Matfelon, from which the area of Whitechapel gets its name. Having been destroyed in The Blitz in 1940, all that remains of the old church is the floor plan and a few graves. Included in those buried on the site are Richard Parker, Richard Brandon, Sir John Cass. and 'Sir' Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garratt (died 1796 – see Hone's Everyday Book 1827, p.